Hidden love letters discovered in a shoebox uncover a secret century-old romance involving a married heiress and an officer.
A collection of love letters has been found in a shoebox, unraveling the tale of a hundred-year-old forbidden romance. The letters, exchanged between married society heiress Dora Smith and the affluent Royal Air Force officer Noel Murray “Fred” Pearson, date back to the 1920s. At the time, Dora resided in Whitley Court, an abandoned mansion […]
Doomed to fail? Hong Kong’s attempt to tackle ‘shoebox housing’ runs into trouble | Hong Kong
Lai Shan Zse moves quickly through the dingy, dimly lit stairwell of a unit block in Hong Kong's Mong Kok district. The social worker knocked on the door to announce her arrival, entered a small foyer, passed a tiled kitchenette where an elderly woman waved, and entered a narrow hall lined with what looked like […]
Historic IL home of Paul Powell, the ‘Shoebox Scandal’ politician, faces sale
Southern Illinois political mogul Paul Powell was left with $800,000 in cash in the “shoebox scandal.” Mr. Powell established a $250,000 trust that maintained his estate for more than half a century. The trust that maintains Powell’s birthplace as a museum in Vienna is running dry and the house is likely to be sold. Paul […]